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Saturday 11-20-10
worked on photos today and did some of my 2D homework which i think will come out really cool, i just wish i had more time to work on it =[ me and my sister went and seen due date, i freaking loved that movie! it was sooo funny and totally quotable. i think it was like a perfect mash up of dumb and dumber and pineapple express mixed with something else, it wass soo good. oh i have to say i cant wait for the 365 to be over because i hate uploading the shitty stuff i do...with that said the last week was extremely stressful and its pretty much all shit =[
Twentieth Anniversary Issue II Le Numéro du Vintiéme Anniversaire II: EPISTEMOLOGICAL BODIES.
edited by Peter Jaeger, Karl Jirgens, Rolland Nadjiwon.
Toronto, 1999.
7-5/8 x 11-1/2, 4o sheets white bond perfectbound into whote rectosemigloss wrappers, all printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to outside covers,
cover by Fausto Bedoya.
65 contributors ID'd:
Fernando Aguiar, Tim Atkins, Derek Beaulieu, Fausto Bedoya, Stephen Bett, Anne-Miek Bibbe, Daniel F.Bradley, Paulo Bruscky, Craig Burnett, Barry Butson, Miles Champion, Ian Cockfield A.Connolly, Jane Creighton, Brian Cullen, Kim Dawn, Jason De Boer, Marcello Diotallevi, John Ditsky, Mark Dunn, Modris Eksteins, David Fennario, Corey Frost, Christine Germaine, William Gibson, Maria Gould, W.A.Hamilton, Keithy Hartman, Heather Hermant, Peter Jaeger, Karl Jirgens, Bill Keith, Ryan Knighton, Keith Bangles Lee, Micharl Londry, Gordon Marsden, Brett Martell, Gordon Massman, Rob McLennan, Errol Miller, Gustave Morin, George Murray, Suzanne Myers, Andrea Nicki, Redell Olsen, Tom Orange, Clemente Padin, Don K.Philpot, Harry Polkinhorn, Richard Purdy, Harry Rudolfs, Linda Russo, Bonnie Sallans, Libhy Scheier, Jason Schneider, Spencer Selby, Henryk Skwar, Steven Ross Smith, Linda Spathi, Pete Spence, Lawrence Upton, Dirk Van Nouhuys, Steve Venright, Bob Wakulich, Derk Wynand, Jeffrey R.Young.
includes:
i) 'ah' for bpN 1944-88, by Derek Beaulieu (p.56; concrete poem)
ii) QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM 20 YEARS OF RAMPIKE MAGAZINE, edited by Karl Jirgens (inside rear cover; with a quote by Nichol from Probable Systems 22)
Concept / Design / Production / Modeling
This dress is constructed using the pages from the ever-so-quotable novel and movie, The Princess Bride.
To read a little more about the process visit my blog here...
carolineprietzphotography.blogspot.com/2010/11/paper-prin...
photos by Kelly L. Bailey
My favourite urban griot, Gil Scott-Heron, is sorely missed. Here we find him in peak satire mode in the Deadwood saloon in the company of the embodiment of nostalgic myth-making, John Wayne, and the pale imitation of B-movie lore that America settled for, Ronald Reagan (or the Hollyweird Ronald the Ray-Gun as Gil would so quotably put it).
Dig The B movie theory:
"The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia.
They want to go back as far as they can – even if it’s only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment – someone always came to save America at the last moment – especially in "B" movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan – and it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at – like a "B" movie..."
I put it this way four years ago at the height of the George W. Bush years:
We are living in a moment where nostalgia is key, we're anesthetizing ourselves with cowboy politics, selective amnesia and worse, when we'd rather have John Wayne. And Baghdad and New Orleans are not the only ones who can testify to that insight.
Gil Scott-Heron is one the great satirists, punctuating his critique with a melodious line and a soulful groove. It's uncanny how he does it, that you can't help but nod your head, tap your feet and laugh out loud even as you want to cry at what he is saying. His body of work is heroic, his prescience altogether scary.
But it is hard living as a canary in a mineshaft, if no one is listening and home is where the hatred is, can it be a surprise if there only remain fractured pieces of a man? Dig: I too might drown myself in fugitive spirits.
Anyway let's kick some urban griot poetry around this joint. Or should we call it soul food?
I am currently reading Michael's Pollan's examination of American food production systems, The Omnivore's Dilemma. Very worthwhile reading. The photo contains books from my library related to Pollan's concerns.
Here are several key quotes from Pollan's discussion of the philosophy of organic (or "sustainable") agriculture promoted by Sir Albert Howard in the early 1900s. [In the chapter where "Big Organic" is compared with the "Pastoral" system of agricultural production.]
"The notion of imitating whole natural systems stands in stark opposition to reductionist science, which works by breaking such systems down into their component parts in order to understand how they work and then manipulating them -- one variable at a time. In this sense, Howard's concept of organic agriculture is premodern, arguably even antiscientific: He's telling us we don't need to understand how humus works or what compost does in order to make good use of it. Our ignorance of the teeming wilderness that is the soil (even the act of regarding it as a wilderness) is no impediment to nurturing it. To the contrary, a healthy sense of all we don't know -- even a sense of mystery -- keeps us from reaching for oversimplifications and technological silver bullets."
"The peasant rice farmer who introduces ducks and fish into his paddy may not understand all the symbiotic relationships he's put into play -- that the ducks and fishes are feeding nitrogen to the rice and at the same time eating the pests. But the high yields of food from this ingenious polyculture are his to harvest even so."
"The philosophy underlying Howard's conception of organic argriculture is a variety of pragmatism. . . . What works is what survives. This is why Howard spent so much time studying peasant agricultural systems in India and elsewhere: The best ones survived as long as they did because they brought food forth from the same ground year after year without depleting the soil." (pp. 150-151)
Notes explain why I photographed these 4 books together.
Additional Notes:
I appreciate everyone's interest and comments on this post. The Timeless Way and The Unsettling of America are seminal books. Reading them will make you rethink the importance of tradition (and traditional values) in relation to the food we eat, and the homes and buildings we inhabit.
Both Berry and Alexander make strong arguments that important "qualities" were lost when we replaced traditional values and social organizations with modern societies, based primarily on the value of rationalized, economic production.
At this point, I no longer interested "scoring" how well these authors' make their critical points. [The points are well made. Berry applies a veritable blowtorch to modern society.]
Instead, what interests me is the ability of these writers to state values we discarded (which were good!), and that we could now work to recover.
In Berry, this alternative envisioning is beautifully stated on p. 150 of the essay "The Body and the Earth"
"It is possible to imagine a more generous enclosure -- a household welcoming to neighbors and friends; a garden open to the weather, between the woods and the road. It is possible to imagine a marriage bond that would bind a woman and man not only to each other, but to the community of marriage, the amorous communion at which all couples sit: the sexual feast and celebration that joins them to all living things and to the fertility of the earth, and the sexual responsibility that joins them to the human past and the human future. It is possible to imagine marriage as a grievous, joyous human bond, endlessly renewable and renewing, again and again rejoining memory and passion and hope."
In this regard, Alexander's work is actually far more quotable. Since his primary aim is to reconstruct the rules (or "patterns") of vernacular architecture, this limits the time spent trashing the systematic errors of modern architecture.
Therefore, pretty much every page in Alexander's The Timeless Way of Building is inspirational. Consider this (from p. 7):
There is one timeless way of building.
It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been.
The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.
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I'm breifly in the video! I was drawing live on a tablet computer at this art show. My work is projected on the background throughout the event. I'm also in the video at 3:58. Another one is happening the end of this month!
Original quote:
"Wow! The 1st ever Quotables Art Show was fantastic - so much so that we'll be doing it again every month! The vid barely captures the incredible energy in the room - Thanks to everybody who came out and a special thank you to all the artists that participated:
Jay Blount
Jack Labadie
Mary Gallagher-Stout
Benjamin Jancewicz
AyindeFactory strikes again! Stay Inspired!"
7 Days of Shooting/Week #10 - Quotable Quotes/Minimal Sunday
'Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.'
Robert Louis Stevenson
Special Twentieth ANNIVERSARY issue Le Numéro du Vintiéme ANNIVERSAIRE: EPISTEMOLOGY.
edited by Karl Jirgens.
Sault Sainte Marie, 1999.
7-1/2 x 11-1/2, 4o sheets white bond perfectbound into whote rectosemigloss wrappers, all printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to outside covers,
cover by Francisco Aliseda.
59 contributors ID'd:
Fernando Aguiar, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Francisco Aliseda, Gary Barwin, Fausto Bedoya, Chris Belsito, Sandra Birdsell, George Bowering, Taylor Brady, Barry Butson, A.Connolly, Elaine L.Corts, Frank Davey, Louis Dudek, Paul Dutton, Umberto Eco, Joollie Ethier, Henry Ferris, Craig Foltz, Mel Freilicher, William George, Christine Germaine, Antonio Gomez, Brion Gysin, Maggie Helwig, Lee Henderson, Alootook Ipellie, Peter Jaeger, Karl Jirgens, Brian David Johnston, Mark Kerwin, David King, Linda Kivi, Richard Kostelanetz, Mark Laliberte, Norman Lock, Helen Lovekin, Karen MacCormack, Steve McCaffery, Jim McCrary, Colin Morton, Sheila E.Murphy, Rolland Nadjiwon, Pagel Norton, Dennis Oppenheim, Andrew F.Palcic, Sam Patterson, K.Ripp, Denis Robillard, Frank Sauers, Spencer Selby, Antanas Sileika, Philippe Sollers, W.Mark Sutherland, George Swede, Carole A.Turner, Jacqueline W.Turner, Paul Vermeersch, Irving Weiss.
includes:
i) 20th Anniversary Editorial, by Karl Jirgens (p.3; prose with passing reference to bpNichol)
ii) QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM 20 YEARS OF RAMPIKE MAGAZINE, edited by Karl Jirgens (inside rear cover; with a quote by Nichol from Probable Systems 22)
Today's weather tones are mimicking the blue-grey granite of Ailsa Craig, famed throughout the world as the breeding ground for curling stones. (Curling is a funny Scottish game a bit like bowls played on ice by the chronically house-proud). Katrina Shepherd has written the following:
A HAIKU FOR THE OLYMPIC CURLERS
Ailsa Craig...
a granite stone curls
over the ice.
In season the island also breeds gannets, puffins and razorbills etc making the island an important bird sanctuary. I grew up in Ayrshire on the other side of the Firth and as a child only knew the rock as "Paddy's Milestone" a nickname traceable to its position half-way between Glasgow and Belfast, and with a child's wonder marvelled at the length of that great big giant Paddy's stride, the story being that he could cross from Ulster to Glasgow in a singe step. Being so familiar with Ailsa Craig from the Ayrshire coast seeing it from Arran is a bit like getting a peek at the dark side of the moon....
Over the years Ailsa Craig has appealed to many writers both William Wordsworth and John Keats allude to Ailsa in verse and good old Sir Walter Scot is dependably quotable " Lord of the Isles, my trust in thee is firm as Ailsa Rock" And Robert Burns's Duncan Grey tells us that "Meg was deaf as Ailsa Craig".
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Visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Volvo (3rd Gen) FH13 500 6x2 (2012-on) Engine 12777cc S6 503hp
Fleet N J Docksey, Leebrook, Leek, Staffordshire
Registration Number V 5 NJD (Fleet based, cherished number)
VOLVO TRUCKS ALBUM
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The FH Series, is a series of heavy trucks, first introduced by Volvo in 1993 which has remained in production through several generation changes and updates. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide
First unveiled in September 1993 as a replacement for the F Series as the FH12 and FH16. FH stands for Forward control High entry, where numbers denominate engine capacity in litres. which shared common cabs. The FH12 won Truck of the Year award in 1994
The third generation FH was launched in 2012 with major technology upgrades, and a new design. The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which became compulsory for new trucks from 2014. Other quotable new features are the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel-saving technology. Volvo Trucks has demonstrated the new Autonomous Emergency Braking system that combines radar and a camera that works together to identify and monitor vehicles in front. The system is designed to deal with both stationary and moving vehicles and can prevent a collision with a moving target at relative speeds of up to 70 km/h. When the system detects a vehicle that the truck will hit at its current speed, the warning system activates a constant red light in the windscreen in order to bring the driver's attention back to the road.
Diolch am 94,825,457 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 94,825,427 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 28.05.2022 at Smallwood Steam Rally. Cheshire REF 160-353
“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
There is no fictional character that I identify with like Mary Shelly’s Monster. The rather modest sized novel is deep with wisdom. I find no book more quotable than “Frankenstein.”
Jeers to Project Runway 1-7 for marring one among its best challenges ever and among its worst guest judges: January Jones.
The eight remaining designers on Lifetime's recharged reality show were given the job of developing a fashion-forward American sportswear look inspired by the iconic Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. It was a deceptively tricky challenge, and only endearing odd-duck Mondo Guerra rose to it, mixing a loud purple hound's tooth skirt having a horizontally striped t-shirt and a purple-lined jacket in a surprising tour de force. The theme also inspired a number ofRunway's most quotable lines, like April's "It's more 'Jackie Yo!' than Jackie O," Valerie's "Jackie Kennedy wouldn't wear Goth," and Tim Gunn's "Jackie Kennedy wouldn't have camel-toe!"
If only Jones could've maintained with fellow judges Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and Heidi Klum, who didn't even try to create a case for her qualifications, merely introducing her guest as "actress January Jones" — and anyone who saw her disastrous SNL hosting gig could even question that description. No less than this episode was filmed before Jones was unanimously voted worst-dressed at this year's Emmys for her cone-bra-and-peekaboo-Scarlett-O'Hara-skirt monstrosity.
Simply because she plays Kennedy Era character Betty Draper Francis on Mad Men does not mean Jones had anything to add to the discussion. Mostly she just giggled and agreed with Kors, when she wasn't giving her trademark doe-in-the-headlights look. And seriously, has an actress ever had a more apt first name? January itself could hardly be chillier and whiter.
When Jones did open her mouth, nothing good came out. She proclaimed Christopher's shrug of an ensemble, part of which Heidi derided as "a dirty dishrag," her favorite. And while she justifiably praised Mondo's design, she also complimented his ridiculous outfit, which appeared as if he was auditioning for a preschool output of Cabaret.
This is mesh decor would look INSANE on your walls. Seriously, you'd be CRAZY to not want this.
Each tapestry features an original photoshop work done by me and a quote from one of my favorite authors, H.P. Lovecraft.
This item is copy and mod and only 1 Li.
Now available on the Marketplace!
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated " Confucius
I didn't think I had time for a shot today so had nothing planned when bizarrely a large bolt appeared on my desk. Not the sort of thing that turns up on a primary school desk really. Turns out it was from a quite big box of nuts and bolts left over from a recent build at school, kept for future use!! Began thinking about the term 'nuts and bolts' so found a quote about the simplicity of life, the "nuts and bolts" and how we often make things more complex than they need to be.
Bertie Brooks performing on top of a Marie Meyers Flying Circus bi-plane piloted by Charles Fowler, 4 July 1924. Photograph by Russell Froelich, 1924. Missouri Historical Society Photographs and Prints Collections. Aviation. N30211.. [30211]
Washington Avenue west from just east of Sixth Street. Photograph by unknown, 1906 Missouri History Museum Archives.
ODC - GROW – Saturday 15th Sept 2012
7DOS - "7 Days of Shooting" "Week #10 - Quotable Quotes " "Minimal Sunday" ( only the dust stayed on my mat)
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #10 - Quotable Quotes " "Thoroughly Abstract Thursday"
A quote by Navjot Singh Sidhu, an Indian cricket player and commentator,
"One who never throws the dice cannot expect to throw a six" meaning if you want to achieve great things in life you have to take some chances /risks.
Also, "Life is like a roll of the dice" (in other words you never know for sure what might happen) is an old saying but I cannot find anyone to whom it has been attributed.
By Bambam-Collective: Marc Hennes, Berta Mattern, Joe Villion,
Marek Kochanowicz, Mariya Sulymenko, Benedikt Rugar,
Pia Zölzer, Lena Schrieb, Ellen Wagner.
17,5 x 24,5 cm / Edition of 100 /
cover: laserprint / 44 Pages: riso print / 12 €.
During our photo-walk on Spadina Ave in Toronto, I spotted a window display featuring not only red (i.e if you see red, shoot it) but also a tribute (?) to Toronto's news-maker of the year for 2013: Mayor Rob Ford. Mayor Ford came to the attention of the press, local, national and international, for all the wrong reasons. After reports of his use of crack cocaine in the press and media (see, for example, www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/11/05/rob_ford_yes_i_have...) in the Toronto Star, one of the Mayors favourite newspapers, I gather), his fame soared. It was only a matter of time until someone made up T-shirts to capitalize on Mayor Ford's oh-so-quotable quotes, and here is one example. And yet, recent public opinion polls suggest continued strong support among his traditional supporters, although this is in a very polarized electorate. His Honour the Mayor, Rob Ford. Only in Toronto. - JW
Date Taken: 2014-01-18
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 26mm, ISO100 (Auto-ISO), Aperture priority mode, f/5.6, 1/160 sec, EV-0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source GIMP: shift black point of the tone curve right to meet the first data points, slightly pull down the curve about 1/2 grid space at about 1/3 in from left side to darken overall tonality to a more natural look, slightly boost overall saturation, use the colour balance tool to remove a slight green cast, very slightly boost overall contrast, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, scale to 1800 wide for posting.
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lo-fem: darlingmaxi: nnekbone: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie quotables... (via www.buzzfeed.com) ✌️ Love her! [A series of quotes from author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on colored squares with certain words enlarged for emphasis. 1. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. 2. Show a people as one thing, only one thing,over and over again, and that is what they become. 3. Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from. 4. A student told me it was such a shame the Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho and that it was a shame that young americans were serial murderers. 5. I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else. 6. His advice to me (and he was shaking his head sadly as he spoke) was that I should never call myself a feminist because feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands. 7. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and wears high heels for herself and not for men. 8. About 52% of the world’s population are women. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, “The higher you go, the fewer women there are.” 9. Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye…I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, who’s kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature. 10. My college roommate asked if she could listen to what she called my ‘tribal music,’ and was very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey.] read more I’ve bolded the first three quotes because if there is anything this blog is about, that’s a pretty great summary. Thanks to lo-fem for the accessibility.And also because Chimamanda Adichie is a human tour de force. Official Website Video: “The Danger of a Single Story”
When Steve says "stop the conversation" he means that he kicks the people out of his bar, the Royale.
By Bambam-Collective: Marc Hennes, Berta Mattern, Joe Villion,
Marek Kochanowicz, Mariya Sulymenko, Benedikt Rugar,
Pia Zölzer, Lena Schrieb, Ellen Wagner.
17,5 x 24,5 cm / Edition of 100 /
cover: laserprint / 44 Pages: riso print / 12 €.
Salvador Dali did not have a lot of quotable material... but i do like this one:
"the difference between a madman and me,
is that i am not mad."
cheers.
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GST Eastern Voles Christmas gathering at Flitton Moor
19/12/2017
Hi All & Tim
May I add my thanks to you all and wish you a happy Christmas and lots of good Voling together in 2018. I cannot wait. All those bonfires, cakes and sarcastic humour.
I thought I would be clever and write a piece about Tuesday incorporating some relevant quotes but the effort has quite overtaken me. So here instead are a few lines from a very wise & quotable Englishman .
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are loads more to choose from and I have to say I was very surprised, perhaps I should read some of his books instead of relying on BBC Childrens Dramas from my earlier years when, hard to believe I was a sprog with hopes and the occasional dream, many of which have been far exceeded in life.
My snaps from Flitton are as usual at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Cheers JP
Hi All,
Many thanks for all your hard work at Flitton Moor on Tuesday. We were slightly down on the usual numbers but it didn’t stop you getting a whole lot done! I know David was pleased with the result and in his own words:
Thanks to all those who turned out on Tuesday at Flitton Moor - you did an amazing job as always.
Re fencing: I was expecting at the very most that half of the fence would be completed - and you did 2 thirds of it. Well done. The FoFM will finish it shortly in the new year.
Thanks also to those who manned the fire - and dragged brash to it. Almost all the was cut down was burnt.
And a special mention to the 6 hardy souls who spent the morning digging nettles.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy 2018,
David
Thank you also to Lucinda, Sue and Erika for helping out with refreshments at lunchtime and to Malcolm and Jackie for such a lovely cake.
The next Tuesday task will be at Sandy Smith on the 2nd January and will be doing a bit more thinning/coppicing in the plantation near the bridge over the Flit plus maybe a few other jobs.
But there will also be a task at Maulden Heath next Thursday (28th) if anyone wishes to come along. The task will be clearing brash and regeneration in the Adder Field and, of course, having a fire; meet at the Picnic Area at 10am.
Thanks for all your hard work this year and I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tim Spencer Countryside Ranger The Greensand Trust
By Bambam-Collective: Marc Hennes, Berta Mattern, Joe Villion,
Marek Kochanowicz, Mariya Sulymenko, Benedikt Rugar,
Pia Zölzer, Lena Schrieb, Ellen Wagner.
17,5 x 24,5 cm / Edition of 100 /
cover: laserprint / 44 Pages: riso print / 12 €.
The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Lagos on 18 July 2017 took the observance of the Nelson Mandela International Day to two cities in South West Nigeria. Two events were held at Freedom Park Lagos and St. Louis Girls Grammar School, Mokola Ibadan, Oyo State, reaching over 640 people comprising of students, NGOs and media. At the Lagos event which was attended by the Nobel Laurette for Literature, Prof Wole Soyinka and the Consul-General of the South African High Commission, Lagos, Mr Darkey Africa, participants engaged in 67 minutes of community service, students recited Mandela's quotable quotes, watched a film on the life of Nelson Mandela while Zulu dancers staged an exciting performance. In his remarks, the Nobel Laurette for Literature, Prof Wole Soyinka paid tributes to Nelson Mandela describing him as an embodiment of humanism, service and leadership. Speaking, the Consul-General of the South African High Commission, Lagos, Mr Darkey Africa noted that the legacy of Nelson Mandela resonates beyond the shores. The event in Ibadan also featured educational briefing of students, Nelson Mandela Quotable Quotes, film screening and 67 minutes of clean-up. The two events were held in collaboration with United Nations Association of Nigeria (UNAAN) and Global Youth Leadership & Girl-Child Foundation (GYLGF).
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
— Bruce Lee
Find more quotes for your timeline at PoteQuotes.com
Home of Potent Quotables.
My favourite urban griot, Gil Scott-Heron, is sorely missed. Here we find him in peak satire mode in the Deadwood saloon in the company of the embodiment of nostalgic myth-making, John Wayne, and the pale imitation of B-movie lore that America settled for, Ronald Reagan (or the Hollyweird Ronald the Ray-Gun as Gil would so quotably put it).
Dig The B movie theory:
"The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia.
They want to go back as far as they can – even if it’s only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment – someone always came to save America at the last moment – especially in "B" movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan – and it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at – like a "B" movie..."
I put it this way four years ago at the height of the George W. Bush years:
We are living in a moment where nostalgia is key, we're anesthetizing ourselves with cowboy politics, selective amnesia and worse, when we'd rather have John Wayne. And Baghdad and New Orleans are not the only ones who can testify to that insight.
Gil Scott-Heron is one the great satirists, punctuating his critique with a melodious line and a soulful groove. It's uncanny how he does it, that you can't help but nod your head, tap your feet and laugh out loud even as you want to cry at what he is saying. His body of work is heroic, his prescience altogether scary.
But it is hard living as a canary in a mineshaft, if no one is listening and home is where the hatred is, can it be a surprise if there only remain fractured pieces of a man? Dig: I too might drown myself in fugitive spirits.
Anyway let's kick some urban griot poetry around this joint. Or should we call it soul food?
...And is there honey still for tea?
Rupert Brooke
7 Days of Shooting/Week #10 - Quotable Quotes/Thoroughly Abstract Thursday
As it says above, 2 birthdays: Hal Ashby, director and Mark Harmon, actor (among others today such as my brother's daughter Lilli and Billy Preston!).
1)What can I say bout this movie? It is quite the divider among the people I talk to about it. Mostly ick. I dunno what for, its heartwarming to me. I always kind of feel like Harold, as though I dont fit in and feeling like my parents dont listen or ignore me. i know that sounds strange considering how much I depend on them and spend time with them but there is a bit of a distance between us though that exists where I dont fully connect with them. Anyway, The story is so heartwarming, like I said, and so charming and heartbreaking as well. Its so innocent and in that in between time where the innocence of the 60s had gone away and the cynicism of the 70s was coming soon. Harold is caught in that innocence and Maude is the last of the truly gifted people who want to create however her backstory, only eluded to and handwaved is darker than what Harold is going through with his fake suicides and being generally "crazy". The cast is amazing. Its funny seeing Ruth Gordon like Maude especially if you grew up seeing her as Ma on the movie Every Which Way But Loose (Haspitable, HA-SHIT!) or as Rosemary's neighbour in Rosemary's Baby (where she genuinely creeped me out). She is so bright and I feel like this is how she really was in real life. Hal really captured that to make her endearing. NO ONE could play Maude like her. Bud Cort as Harold comes off the same way. So naive but cynical and wanting to EXPLODE. Bud just commands so much of the performance with nods and looks and his droll delivery in some scenes. Christina Pickles as his mother is also so amazing as you totally believe she is this woman. The soundtrack by Cat Stevens is so timeless and adds so much to the movie that tears always for when I think of or hear those songs. They are sad and brave and inspiring, all at once. They are some of the first songs I put on my ipod back in the 2000s when I got my first gen video playing kind (which STILL works!). Def one of my favourite Hal Ashby films. HBD HAL! <3
(PS the cover on the right is the one I bought originally that i was going to buy on my birthday from a Best Buy opening up on my birthday in 2000 something but they didnt have it, of course. Later, I got the Criterion version too. I have also seen it at a special screening during Cinema Tuesdays one summer in 2014 or so and YES, I cried.)
2) Summer School will always be a favourite, since I watched it a LOT as a teenager and later. It has such quotable lines and characters that make you feel comfy. Its really the first movie I ever saw Mark in and later, when I began watching NCIS, I actually watched it for Pauley Perette b/c she was a crush I saw on Drew Carey Show like 2 times. What can I say, I like me some Goth girls with raspy voices. It didnt even occur to me that was Mr. Shoop. I have met some of the cast and they always get a kick out of my dvd b/c I doubt people have heard of this movie let alone watched it. It has a really great message too that kind of really seems to be unique to this movie. Plus I loved Dean Cameron it so much, I eventually became Chainsaw (and Dave) by watching horror films for most of my life after high school and into post adolescence.
Def check it out. HBD MARK!!! <3
GST Eastern Voles Christmas gathering at Flitton Moor
19/12/2017
Hi All & Tim
May I add my thanks to you all and wish you a happy Christmas and lots of good Voling together in 2018. I cannot wait. All those bonfires, cakes and sarcastic humour.
I thought I would be clever and write a piece about Tuesday incorporating some relevant quotes but the effort has quite overtaken me. So here instead are a few lines from a very wise & quotable Englishman .
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are loads more to choose from and I have to say I was very surprised, perhaps I should read some of his books instead of relying on BBC Childrens Dramas from my earlier years when, hard to believe I was a sprog with hopes and the occasional dream, many of which have been far exceeded in life.
My snaps from Flitton are as usual at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Cheers JP
Hi All,
Many thanks for all your hard work at Flitton Moor on Tuesday. We were slightly down on the usual numbers but it didn’t stop you getting a whole lot done! I know David was pleased with the result and in his own words:
Thanks to all those who turned out on Tuesday at Flitton Moor - you did an amazing job as always.
Re fencing: I was expecting at the very most that half of the fence would be completed - and you did 2 thirds of it. Well done. The FoFM will finish it shortly in the new year.
Thanks also to those who manned the fire - and dragged brash to it. Almost all the was cut down was burnt.
And a special mention to the 6 hardy souls who spent the morning digging nettles.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy 2018,
David
Thank you also to Lucinda, Sue and Erika for helping out with refreshments at lunchtime and to Malcolm and Jackie for such a lovely cake.
The next Tuesday task will be at Sandy Smith on the 2nd January and will be doing a bit more thinning/coppicing in the plantation near the bridge over the Flit plus maybe a few other jobs.
But there will also be a task at Maulden Heath next Thursday (28th) if anyone wishes to come along. The task will be clearing brash and regeneration in the Adder Field and, of course, having a fire; meet at the Picnic Area at 10am.
Thanks for all your hard work this year and I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tim Spencer Countryside Ranger The Greensand Trust
The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Lagos on 18 July 2017 took the observance of the Nelson Mandela International Day to two cities in South West Nigeria. Two events were held at Freedom Park Lagos and St. Louis Girls Grammar School, Mokola Ibadan, Oyo State, reaching over 640 people comprising of students, NGOs and media. At the Lagos event which was attended by the Nobel Laurette for Literature, Prof Wole Soyinka and the Consul-General of the South African High Commission, Lagos, Mr Darkey Africa, participants engaged in 67 minutes of community service, students recited Mandela's quotable quotes, watched a film on the life of Nelson Mandela while Zulu dancers staged an exciting performance. In his remarks, the Nobel Laurette for Literature, Prof Wole Soyinka paid tributes to Nelson Mandela describing him as an embodiment of humanism, service and leadership. Speaking, the Consul-General of the South African High Commission, Lagos, Mr Darkey Africa noted that the legacy of Nelson Mandela resonates beyond the shores. The event in Ibadan also featured educational briefing of students, Nelson Mandela Quotable Quotes, film screening and 67 minutes of clean-up. The two events were held in collaboration with United Nations Association of Nigeria (UNAAN) and Global Youth Leadership & Girl-Child Foundation (GYLGF).
GST Eastern Voles Christmas gathering at Flitton Moor
19/12/2017
Hi All & Tim
May I add my thanks to you all and wish you a happy Christmas and lots of good Voling together in 2018. I cannot wait. All those bonfires, cakes and sarcastic humour.
I thought I would be clever and write a piece about Tuesday incorporating some relevant quotes but the effort has quite overtaken me. So here instead are a few lines from a very wise & quotable Englishman .
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are loads more to choose from and I have to say I was very surprised, perhaps I should read some of his books instead of relying on BBC Childrens Dramas from my earlier years when, hard to believe I was a sprog with hopes and the occasional dream, many of which have been far exceeded in life.
My snaps from Flitton are as usual at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Cheers JP
Hi All,
Many thanks for all your hard work at Flitton Moor on Tuesday. We were slightly down on the usual numbers but it didn’t stop you getting a whole lot done! I know David was pleased with the result and in his own words:
Thanks to all those who turned out on Tuesday at Flitton Moor - you did an amazing job as always.
Re fencing: I was expecting at the very most that half of the fence would be completed - and you did 2 thirds of it. Well done. The FoFM will finish it shortly in the new year.
Thanks also to those who manned the fire - and dragged brash to it. Almost all the was cut down was burnt.
And a special mention to the 6 hardy souls who spent the morning digging nettles.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy 2018,
David
Thank you also to Lucinda, Sue and Erika for helping out with refreshments at lunchtime and to Malcolm and Jackie for such a lovely cake.
The next Tuesday task will be at Sandy Smith on the 2nd January and will be doing a bit more thinning/coppicing in the plantation near the bridge over the Flit plus maybe a few other jobs.
But there will also be a task at Maulden Heath next Thursday (28th) if anyone wishes to come along. The task will be clearing brash and regeneration in the Adder Field and, of course, having a fire; meet at the Picnic Area at 10am.
Thanks for all your hard work this year and I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tim Spencer Countryside Ranger The Greensand Trust
Nick Fury: "Congrats kiddo."
Black Widow: "Yes, congratulate me for lying, cheating, and stealing in order to succeed?"
Nick Fury: "I prefer to think of it as 'spying' Natasha."
Journey into Mystery #519
God made many lovely things,
Sunsets and flowers and trees,
Birds and starlight and loyal friends,
And sfter He made all these
He gave another gift more rare,
More loving and more true.
A wonderful person most fair,
A mother dear as you.
Unknown Aurthor
7DOS - "7 Days of Shooting" "Week #10 - Quotable Quotes " "Go For Bokeh Tuesday"
112 pictures in 2012 - 99. Gift
My favourite urban griot, Gil Scott-Heron, is sorely missed. Here we find him in peak satire mode in the Deadwood saloon in the company of the embodiment of nostalgic myth-making, John Wayne, and the pale imitation of B-movie lore that America settled for, Ronald Reagan (or the Hollyweird Ronald the Ray-Gun as Gil would so quotably put it).
Dig The B movie theory:
"The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia.
They want to go back as far as they can – even if it’s only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment – someone always came to save America at the last moment – especially in "B" movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan – and it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at – like a "B" movie..."
I put it this way four years ago at the height of the George W. Bush years:
We are living in a moment where nostalgia is key, we're anesthetizing ourselves with cowboy politics, selective amnesia and worse, when we'd rather have John Wayne. And Baghdad and New Orleans are not the only ones who can testify to that insight.
Gil Scott-Heron is one the great satirists, punctuating his critique with a melodious line and a soulful groove. It's uncanny how he does it, that you can't help but nod your head, tap your feet and laugh out loud even as you want to cry at what he is saying. His body of work is heroic, his prescience altogether scary.
But it is hard living as a canary in a mineshaft, if no one is listening and home is where the hatred is, can it be a surprise if there only remain fractured pieces of a man? Dig: I too might drown myself in fugitive spirits.
Anyway let's kick some urban griot poetry around this joint. Or should we call it soul food?
GST Eastern Voles Christmas gathering at Flitton Moor
19/12/2017
Hi All & Tim
May I add my thanks to you all and wish you a happy Christmas and lots of good Voling together in 2018. I cannot wait. All those bonfires, cakes and sarcastic humour.
I thought I would be clever and write a piece about Tuesday incorporating some relevant quotes but the effort has quite overtaken me. So here instead are a few lines from a very wise & quotable Englishman .
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are loads more to choose from and I have to say I was very surprised, perhaps I should read some of his books instead of relying on BBC Childrens Dramas from my earlier years when, hard to believe I was a sprog with hopes and the occasional dream, many of which have been far exceeded in life.
My snaps from Flitton are as usual at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Cheers JP
Hi All,
Many thanks for all your hard work at Flitton Moor on Tuesday. We were slightly down on the usual numbers but it didn’t stop you getting a whole lot done! I know David was pleased with the result and in his own words:
Thanks to all those who turned out on Tuesday at Flitton Moor - you did an amazing job as always.
Re fencing: I was expecting at the very most that half of the fence would be completed - and you did 2 thirds of it. Well done. The FoFM will finish it shortly in the new year.
Thanks also to those who manned the fire - and dragged brash to it. Almost all the was cut down was burnt.
And a special mention to the 6 hardy souls who spent the morning digging nettles.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy 2018,
David
Thank you also to Lucinda, Sue and Erika for helping out with refreshments at lunchtime and to Malcolm and Jackie for such a lovely cake.
The next Tuesday task will be at Sandy Smith on the 2nd January and will be doing a bit more thinning/coppicing in the plantation near the bridge over the Flit plus maybe a few other jobs.
But there will also be a task at Maulden Heath next Thursday (28th) if anyone wishes to come along. The task will be clearing brash and regeneration in the Adder Field and, of course, having a fire; meet at the Picnic Area at 10am.
Thanks for all your hard work this year and I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tim Spencer Countryside Ranger The Greensand Trust
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Two additional shots in comments.
Gotta love the movie Zoolander. One of the most quotable movies ever.
The Magic Mouse was my Christmas present from Casey. She definitely knows what to get to make a nerd happy :) It's a touch sensitive mouse that's just flat out awesome. I'm very happy with it.
Today I went to Olive Garden with my entire Dad's side of the family and it was quite fun. I also set up a photoshoot for the family to get the photo for our new years card and whotnot. My aunt gave me a large piece of dark navy velvet cloth that worked quite well as a background for the portraits. It's kinda sad because today was my last real day of winter break. Tomorrow doesn't count because I'm going to be spending the whole time catching up on homework. No fun.
The picture? I set up the shot and wasn't exactly sure what kind of pose I wanted so I tried close to 50 different shots. This one specifically reminded me of the "Zoolander Pose" which is basically the reason why I chose it. There are several other good ones too.
I am pretty happy with the lighting setup here, I'm starting to get better with two strobes.
Strobist: Vivitar 383 into white umrella camera left. Vivitar 383 into white umbrella low camera right. Triggered via Cactus v4 and Vivitar on slave mode.
Song of the Day: "Every Morning" - Sugar Ray.
Another GREAT 90's song. I never get tired of this song no matter how many times I hear it.
01/02/2010.
ZOMG. Speaking of "Magic", today's date is the same thing backwards. WHOAAAA
Sunday afternoon on Mount Clod. It wasn’t exactly planned you know. Augustus “Dad” Dusted and neighbor Finley Flay took their wives for a Sunday outing on the Downtown Dirtpile Transit (DDT) to the top of Mount Clod.
Their Jitney Touring Coach hit a dime on the tracks and derailed. So while DDT rail men worked to right the cars and return them to the trolley track, the touring couples and other passengers strolled the rocky terrain taking in some sunshine. Two other coaches stopped to give aid (it was the only track) and soon the entire transit company was atop Mount Clod, not to mention most of the population of Dirtpile City.
Gus and Dorothy, Finley and Faye posed on some rocks in the sun while another passenger with a box camera took this picture.
Later the next week Finley remarked, “Your friend with the pointed hat was a bit strange.” He blew a bit of foam off his schooner of lager.
To which Gus replied after a long pull on a cool draft, “My friend? I thought she was your friend! I don’t know her.”
“Gosh Darn!” (Actually not an exact quote,) “I gave her a hundred bucks because she said she was collecting money for your birthday!” said Finley.
“NO! She said the same of you and I gave her a fiver,” Said Gus and he belched.
“I believe we have been bilked a bit,” fumed Finley. “Wait a minute. A fiver?”
The conversation that followed is also not quotable but continued far into the night ending only at closing time, as far as anyone knows.
It turned out to be a nice photograph even if in the background Ezzard Yoost did choose that very moment to practice flashing.